Daily Question, August 31 How can I respond to a current challenge utilizing the wisdom and abilities of my “higher self”? 31 Reflections Share Click here to cancel reply.Please log in or Create a Profile to post a comment. Notify me when someone replies to my comment via e-mail. KC7 years agoKCTake the time to check in with body, mind and spirit at regular intervals and as required. Practice reaching out, staying and being connected with others, and not thinking or trying to do it all alone. Asking for help when I need to, and offering the same as I am able. 2 Reply Anna7 years agoAnnaKC, I really appreciate your “not thinking or trying to do it all alone”, because it is so true, and it is not a weak attitude, as a lot of people believe. Then, I would like to “check at regular intervals”…. it is a work in progress for me, because I do a check in the morning or before sleeping… but during my working day I forget to stop and meditate. I notice that since I visit this site my attitude has changed, in general, but when something boring or challenging happens it is st... KC, I really appreciate your “not thinking or trying to do it all alone”, because it is so true, and it is not a weak attitude, as a lot of people believe. Then, I would like to “check at regular intervals”…. it is a work in progress for me, because I do a check in the morning or before sleeping… but during my working day I forget to stop and meditate. I notice that since I visit this site my attitude has changed, in general, but when something boring or challenging happens it is still hard to stay, breathe and connect with my deep self and others, even for a minute. Read More0 Reply KC7 years agoKCHi Anna, Yes, like so many, I stuggle with a hard wired attitude of thinking and acting as if I need to do it all alone. Like you, I meditate in the morning and try in the evening. The rest if the day is hit and miss! I just looked up the three minute breathing space, and technique developed by Zindel Siegel and a few MBCT pioneers. Tried his meditation on YouTube twice, and it seemed pretty effective! One suggestion I received was to schedule three minute checking through the day. The... Hi Anna, Yes, like so many, I stuggle with a hard wired attitude of thinking and acting as if I need to do it all alone. Like you, I meditate in the morning and try in the evening. The rest if the day is hit and miss! I just looked up the three minute breathing space, and technique developed by Zindel Siegel and a few MBCT pioneers. Tried his meditation on YouTube twice, and it seemed pretty effective! One suggestion I received was to schedule three minute checking through the day. The other was to do them at random as required. So far I have not done either! Your post has promoted me to try to create a habit of this practice. With gratitude for your note, and best for your day! Warmly, KC Read More1 Reply Anna7 years agoAnna???? 0 Reply Stephen Holder7 years agoStephen HolderI can, and indeed just have responded by stopping, taking a breath, remove my ego, my selfish self, emapthically considering the other’s view, consider the whole picture of both sides of the current ‘story’, reality check the story, respond with compassion and love. Simple, but I wasn’t able to drop the ego when I most needed to. Time here was the friend of a healing and compassionate response. 3 Reply Ed Schulte7 years agoEd SchulteThe Question was: "How can I respond to a current challenge utilizing the wisdom and abilities of my “higher self?" My first response was ...........What? This questions lead right into the ENORMOUS ERROR which current Religion(s ) and New Age Philosophies propagate. Which is, that one's "BE-ing-ness" is made up of a divided Self! They speak of, "Lower/higher", "lesser/Greater", "self/Self ......etc etc BUT there is and only ever will be, ONE Self! Any other method of understandin... The Question was: “How can I respond to a current challenge utilizing the wisdom and abilities of my “higher self?” My first response was ………..What? This questions lead right into the ENORMOUS ERROR which current Religion(s ) and New Age Philosophies propagate. Which is, that one’s “BE-ing-ness” is made up of a divided Self! They speak of, “Lower/higher”, “lesser/Greater”, “self/Self ……etc etc BUT there is and only ever will be, ONE Self! Any other method of understanding only allows egoism to continue to rule over any potential realization of “I AM I, therefore, I AM”. Creative wisdom hasn’t a chance while this mentality persists! This cannot be emphasized strongly enough. The current -“divided self”- intellectual mind traps set by well meaning Authors/Teachers is just too much. ( Just read the current Blog “Power of Being” and try and sort out what Phd Lipton is trying to say. ) So I am certainly not going to fall for the error in to-days question , But, I will contribute a few words spoken by a true Christian mystic while address a stubborn minded group of western trained Buddhists. They are simple word which point to the important, “How to just “realize” the place of stillness / wisdom already in each of us, and stop the struggling,’ IOW “Realize one’s own depth”. Start Quote “So, again, let’s use this kind of visualization, that you are on the surface ( day to day unconsciousness) and suddenly your attention moves from sense perceptions and from thoughts to a deeper place. And that is easily done when you allow thought activities to subside and the consciousness that usually would have been absorbed by thinking it suddenly free to realize its own depth. You become still and as you become still you become aware of your own depth, when I say that, it sounds dualistic but this is only because we’re using language., you become aware of your own depth, really, there are not two here, the depth that you are is becoming aware of itself. And that is what we call “Self – realization”.” End Quote ( Daskalos, Cyprus 1992) Read More1 Reply Aine7 years agoAineBy choosing not to take things personally but, rather, to allow other people’s actions to be a manifestation of them rather than a reflection of me or what I deserved. The ego is all about deserving. I think the Higher Self is able to allow things to happen without there being any attachment to the self. 2 Reply KC7 years agoKCSuch wisdom Aine. Thank you! Not easy to do though! ????????… 1 Reply Aine7 years agoAineNo, not easy at all! However, I think it IS getting easier with practice. 😉 0 Reply SeeAreLow7 years agoSeeAreLowSimplify. Enjoy the journey of this challenge and discover just how strong you can be. 2 Reply Trevor7 years agoTrevorNice. 0 Reply Nicole McCormick7 years agoNicole McCormickidk lmao 1 Reply Trevor7 years agoTrevorsame rofl 0 Reply Kit7 years agoKittoday is here- ready or not. Yesterday will never return. Often when you are at the end of something- you are really at the beginning of something else. knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. 3 Reply Gina7 years agoGinapay attention! trust in the universe, as they say and believe it! 4 Reply kathleen7 years agokathleenMy current challenge has a root in early childhood experience. I think nurturing a wounded child and being there for her helps me deal with a current difficulty in relationship. My higher self has a chance to take action if needed. I’m not there yet. Just dealing with the perceived blow. For me it requires a lot of patience. 3 Reply Aine7 years agoAineMe, too. This is forefront at the moment for me in my healing journey as well. When a memory of what got put in place to give me these triggers comes up, it helps to step outside myself for a moment, to look not at how I WAS treated as a child but at how I would choose to treat that child were she in front of me now. Then it is much easier to see where the nurturing is needed and how it can help. We all function better with encouragement and appropriate compassion, yet how stingy we can be on g... Me, too. This is forefront at the moment for me in my healing journey as well. When a memory of what got put in place to give me these triggers comes up, it helps to step outside myself for a moment, to look not at how I WAS treated as a child but at how I would choose to treat that child were she in front of me now. Then it is much easier to see where the nurturing is needed and how it can help. We all function better with encouragement and appropriate compassion, yet how stingy we can be on giving it to ourselves! Read More1 Reply KC7 years agoKCAine, I too really appreciate your approach to the wounded inner child – to separate from her, acknowledge the hurt, and to treat that imaginary child as she would like to be treated today. And, to know that she is a part of us and not us. Such a journey! Patience, encouragement and compassion seem so essential! 2 Reply kathleen7 years agokathleenI like what you said about rewriting or redoing or revisiting the past and separating from it. 1 Reply Michael7 years agoMichaelcalmer. how does this affect the larger group as well as an individual/myself. viewing the challenge from a positive angle. know that I am doing my very best and putting maximum effort into the challenge (the process) so that the outcome will have its best opportunity to be helpful (the product). I will know that I did my best. 2 Reply Always Learning7 years agoAlways LearningI am taking time to breathe and consider how I want to ACT rather than REACT. My ego self is all about survival… and not every situation requires that. Dealing with dialysis… both the health and financial considerations… requires courage and wisdom on my part. I am doing my best. Some days am the winner, some the runner up… but I am never the loser. ???? 4 Reply Trevor7 years agoTrevor???? 0 Reply Christina7 years agoChristinaI am facing a challenge: my company may be sold and there is a possibility I could be without my part-time job. This is frightening to me: I like to pay my bills! I am trying to work my faith in my Higher Power that He/She will take care of me. I'm doing pretty well with it. Most days I can forget about the whole thing. When I'm at work, though, I fit my perceptions to my fears: That the meetings with groups of employees by the big boss on Tuesday meant...and then I fill in the blank - fearfully... I am facing a challenge: my company may be sold and there is a possibility I could be without my part-time job. This is frightening to me: I like to pay my bills! I am trying to work my faith in my Higher Power that He/She will take care of me. I’m doing pretty well with it. Most days I can forget about the whole thing. When I’m at work, though, I fit my perceptions to my fears: That the meetings with groups of employees by the big boss on Tuesday meant…and then I fill in the blank – fearfully. Read More2 Reply Aine7 years agoAineWe’re in a time of transition here, too, and when I am concerned that our additional source of income will dry up, I remind myself that this is not the only way to make money in this world and that more opportunity may be awaiting if this one fizzles out. That helps in those darker fill in the blank moments! 🙂 1 Reply Christina7 years agoChristinaThanks, Aine! 0 Reply Kevin7 years agoKevinSeems to me that I can respond to a particular challenge without utilizing my “higher self” and, though it may not be pretty, I just might get lucky and succeed. This happens rarely, thank goodness and it’s nothing to be proud of. Conversely, when I respond to a challenge and employ the best of who and what I am as a person, emotionally and spiritually, my odds of succeeding and finishing “well” certainly increase. However, if I am fortified with my higher self in play and I still fail... Seems to me that I can respond to a particular challenge without utilizing my “higher self” and, though it may not be pretty, I just might get lucky and succeed. This happens rarely, thank goodness and it’s nothing to be proud of. Conversely, when I respond to a challenge and employ the best of who and what I am as a person, emotionally and spiritually, my odds of succeeding and finishing “well” certainly increase. However, if I am fortified with my higher self in play and I still fail, then I have permission to walk away and to let it go knowing that I gave it my all. – Kevin Read More2 Reply K7 years agoKKevin, I so appreciated this response. It reminded me of a 16th/17th (not sure) century mystic--Brother Lawrence. Know him? He said that when he had a challenge, he prayed and then if things went well, he expressed gratitude for the grace to do it, and if things went wrong, he prayed, "So I would always do except for Your grace" and ...here is the part I think is so challenging and liberating..."and then I give no more thought to it." I'm paraphrasing, not really quoting, so you should find the ... Kevin, I so appreciated this response. It reminded me of a 16th/17th (not sure) century mystic–Brother Lawrence. Know him? He said that when he had a challenge, he prayed and then if things went well, he expressed gratitude for the grace to do it, and if things went wrong, he prayed, “So I would always do except for Your grace” and …here is the part I think is so challenging and liberating…”and then I give no more thought to it.” I’m paraphrasing, not really quoting, so you should find the real stuff. But there’s liberation in that lightness. I hear that in your approach too. Peace to you, Kim Read More1 Reply Kevin7 years agoKevinThanks Kim, Brother Lawrence, used a phrase too, when translated, acknowledged that a part of his life included a “ministry of pots and pans,” because he cooked for the brothers and priests in his Abby. His life and ministry and how he approached both have always inspired me personally. Thanks for invoking his name in this space! My best to you, too. – Kevin. 0 Reply Aine7 years agoAineThe “and then I give no more thought to it” bit is the part I am working on! 😀 0 Reply Lunamagicae7 years agoLunamagicaeBy calling on all the strength and wisdom I had gathered when facing all other challenges. Stay in the present, be patient and stay strong. Things will always work out the way they should. 3 Reply Aine7 years agoAineMy pastoral counselor friend always says, “Everything is unfolding precisely as it is supposed to.” 🙂 It helps to remember this especially when you’re in the midst of a muddle where you are just positive someone screwed up somewhere for it to unfold that way. 1 Reply My Private Gratitude Journal Write an entry in your private gratefulness journal Get Started This site is brought to you by A Network for Grateful Living, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are fully tax deductible in the U.S.A. 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